Hello Folks, I agree with Guilherme regarding not writing development documentation. Yesterday I received an e-mail of one of Umit's users asking me if there was any development documentation available so she could adapt Umit to her needs. It was clearly a coincidence, but I don't intend to put any effort on that by now and asked her to join us on our mailing list and IRC channel and there she can get some help with us. I think that anyone willing to have support on Umit code is better going after us than waiting for documentation, and that will work fine.
But still, I think there is the need for documentation of some features. Sometimes, we may think that our interface is intuitive enough but our users may not think that way. Therefore, we need to prepare to them some interesting content that will help them get their job done using Umit and get to know our extra features. One of the examples is the plugins project. It is going to die if we don't provide users any documetation. The mapper is also a good candidate for documentation, because it has a lot of features and many users will not figure out how it works out of the box. I think we need to help in these cases. That's why I asked that a discussion on that matter would be relevant on this list. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough in my proposal. Now, let's try it once again. Which projects do you guys think that need some documentation, so we can help users use Umit better and even discover features that they didn't know before, or even, what sort of documetation should we produce to incentivate contributions (like the plugins module)? Cheers! -- Adriano Monteiro Marques http://adriano-marques.blogspot.com http://www.umitproject.org http://www.pythonbenelux.org "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Umit-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/umit-devel
